Memorandum pad



Oct. 17, 1933. I I w c E T 1,931,140

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Patented Oct. 17, 1933 PAT N mce MEMORANDUM PAD WiIli am G. Bohmert, Mamarone'ck, N.

"Application February17,'1932, Serial No. 593,510

Renewed September '6, 1933 f 3 Claims. (01; 282%23) This invention relates to memorandum pads, and more particularly to such pads for use in the kitchen to note thereon needed food supplies.

The objects of the invention, among others,

, are: First, to provide a memorandum pad for the kitchen that does not require the use of a lead pencil, but which by impressing the fingernail or a fork thereon will make a carbon mark; second, to provide such a pad having a plurality of memorandum sheets adapted to be easily torn out from the pad, each sheet having a space in the same horizontal line as the designation of some article of food or merchandise, near the edge, and a similar top sheet adapted to be fixed permanently in the said pad and having on the back thereof and coextensive with the spaces on the front of said sheet and on the other sheets layers of carbon-copying material, whereby when the fingernail is pressed in a space on the top 220 sheet a carbon imprint is made in the corresponding space on the proximate underlying sheet without any danger of smearing the designation of the indicated article of food; other objects will appear as the description proceeds.

Reference is made to the drawing for an illustration of one embodiment of the invention, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view with the bottom of the top sheet turned up along a horizontal line, and

Fig. 2 is a plan view with the top of the top broken away.

As shown in the drawing, the top sheet 1 is 5- secured to the other sheets of the pad by two staples 2 and in the center of the pad below and between the staples is a round hole 3 adapted to suspend the pad on a nail driven into the wall. The back 1a of the top sheet has two areas 4 of carbon-copying material which are coextensive with and overlie rectangular spaces 5 which are located near each vertical edge of the pad. The spaces 5 are formed by horizontal lines and vertical lines and proximate to therspaces 5 near 5 the left edge the names 6 of articles of food or merchandise are imprinted in the same horizontal lines. Down the center of each sheet is a heavy black line 7 dividing each sheet into equal sections, and on the right of this line is the name 6 or designation of another article of merarticles of merchandise with rectangular spaces to the left and the right. The pad may be made of any desired length and any desired number of names 6 of merchandise may be used. The ordinary layer of carbon-copying material 4 will make about fifty good impressions on the underlying sheet 10 which, when needed, is tom out along the line of tear 11 to carry to the telephone or to the cash-and-carry store. As' shown in Fig. 1 the lower right corner of the pad of sheets is turned up at 8 to expose the cardboard backing 9 and the top sheet 1 has a bias-cut corner 13 for thumb-and-finger access to the underlying sheet 10.

The utility of the invention is now apparent: When the cook finds a shortage of one kind of i merchandise she draws her fingernail across the impressed by the fingernail, fork, or handle, as

shown in Fig. 2, where the merchandise bacon, beans, bread, butter, coffee, lemons, oranges, peas, and sugar, have been indicated as neede in the kitchen at that time. 7 V

Having now illustrated and described one embodiment of my invention, andrealizing that in view of my disclosure many changes in detail will readily occur to those skilled in the art, I do not choose to limitmyself except as in the appended claims.

I claim: a 1. A memorandum pad adapted for notations with the finger nail, comprising in combination a plurality of sheets, a line of tear near the top of each of said sheets, each sheet having a blank The carbon-copying mate! top sheet having corresponding spacesin each horizontal line and secured to the other sheets above the lines of tear thereof, said top sheet having on the back thereof and coextensive with the said edge space on the front of said sheet carboncopying material, the remainder of theback of the front sheet being clean so that designations on the underlying sheets will not be smudged by carbon.

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2. A memorandum pad adapted for notations l by the fingernail, comprising in combination, a

plurality of sheets, a stiff board backing for said sheets, said sheets having an impressed horizontal line of tear near their tops, each sheet having a vertical column of spaces bearing the names of merchandise, and contiguous to each space and in the same horizontal line a blank spacenear the vertical edge of the pad, a similar top sheet bearing the same arrangement of names of merchandise as the others and having a cutaway portion at the edgethereof, a coating of carbon-copying material on the back of said top sheet coextensive with the edge spaces on the front thereof, the remainder of the back being clean so that names of merchandise on underlying sheets will not be smudged by carbon, and means for binding said sheets together above the horizontal line of tear on the under sheets.

3. A memorandum pad adapted for notations byrthe finger nail, comprising in combination a plurality of sheets, a stiff board backing for said sheets, said sheets having an impressed horizontal line of tear near their tops, each sheet having a vertical column of spaces bearing the names of merchandise and contiguous to each space and in the same horizontal-line of the sheet a blank space near the vertical edge of the pad, one set of blank spaces being located near the left edge with a set of spaces bearing a column of names of merchandise located to the right thereof, and another set of blank spaces near the right vertical edge with a set of spaces bearing a column of names of merchandise located ,to the left thereof, a similar top sheet bearing the same spaces and names of merchandise as the other sheets and having a cutaway portion, a

coating of carbon-copying material on the back of said top sheet and coextensive with the edge blank spaces on the front of said top sheet, the

remainder of the back of the top sheet being clean, and means for binding-said sheets to said stiff board backing in a pad above the line of tear on the under sheets.

WILLIAM C. BOHMERT. 

